International 100% Renewable Energy Conference

JOSEP PUIG I BOIX

Chair, EUROSOLAR Catalonia and Spain

JOSEP PUIG I BOIX

Chair, EUROSOLAR Catalonia and Spain

 

Biography

PhD engineer in Energy Technology (graduated in 1972, doctorate in 1982 at the UPC)

Undergraduate in biomedical engineering (1973) and environmental engineering (1979).

Co-founder of Ecotècnia S.C.C.L. (1981), a pioneer wind engineering coop, and Ecoserveis (1992), an association working on European renewable energy projects on education.

1st. Green Councillor at Barcelona City Council (Sustainable City Councillor (1999-1999):

Barcelona Solar Ordinance, that later became Spanish Law.

Member of the Catalan Parliament (May 2019-december 2020), speaker of the

Parliamentary Commission of Climate Emergency.

Professor, Autonomous University of Barcelona (1979-2012)

Eurosolar’s Member of the Board. Chairman of the Catalan and Spanish sections.

President of Earth Day Catalonia.

Leader of Living from the air of Sky’s project (the first citizen’s owned wind generator in Catalonia, Spain and in the Southern Europe)